Mobile social networks suffer from an unbalanced traffic load distribution due to the heterogeneity in mobility of nodes (humans) in the network. A few nodes in these networks are highly mobile, and the proposed social-based routing algorithms are li...
Traffic engineering aims to control infrastructure and population behaviour to achieve optimal usage of road networks. Fairness is fundamental to stimulate cooperation in large populations, and plays an important role in traffic engineering, as it in...
Travel equity has always been an important but difficult topic in urban traffic research, especially for different groups. Firstly, based on bus operation, this paper constructs the ride change network using the ArcGIS platform. Secondly, through net...
In the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless standard, the Internet of Things (IoT) will interconnect billions of Machine Type Communications (MTC) devices. Fixed and mobile wearable devices and sensors are expected to contribute to the majority of IoT traf...
The increasing demand for high-speed, reliable, and fair network services in multi-gigabit-wide area networks (WANs) has necessitated the development of advanced bandwidth allocation mechanisms. This paper proposes a Fair and QoS-Aware Dynamic Bandwi...
5 November 2025
The unequal status between manufacturers and live-streamers often undermines supply chain profitability and social welfare. However, the “volume guarantee” commission mode, designed to mitigate this issue, has proven ineffective in practi...
8 December 2019
Lake reclamation for urban construction has caused serious damage to lakes in cities undergoing rapid urbanization. This process affects urban ecological environment and leads to inconsistent urban expansion, population surge, and uneven distribution...
Due to the technological advancement in cellular networks, massive data traffic appends to the existing digital technologies. These emerging digital technologies face quality of service (QoS) challenges, particularly when it comes to maintaining the...
In this paper, a novel distributed scheduling scheme for an ad-hoc network is proposed. Specifically, the throughput and the delay of packets with different importance are flexibly adjusted by quantifying the importance as weight factors. In this sch...
This study explores the multi-objective optimization of flight sequencing in multi-runway airports using genetic algorithms. As air traffic continues to grow, airports face increasing pressure to optimize resource allocation. This research focuses on...
With the expected increase in drone operations, inter-operator fairness issues and congestion problems are expected to arise due to the strategic authorization approach mandated in European regulation. As an alternative, the proposed authorization me...
The rapid growth of high-quality telecommunications demands enhanced queueing system performance. Traditional bandwidth distribution often struggles to adapt to dynamic changes, network conditions, and erratic traffic patterns. Internet traffic fluct...
In this paper, we propose a solution to the problem of guaranteed time slot allocation in cluster-tree WSNs. Our design uses the so-called Network Utility Maximization (NUM) approach as far as we aim to provide a fair distribution of the available re...
This paper proposes integrating low earth orbit satellites (LEO-Sats) and multiple aerials to provide rescue services in post-disaster areas. Aerials are distributed to provide wireless connectivity to survivors and rescue workers, while LEO-Sat exhi...
Ultra-Dense Network (UDN) deployment is considered a key element to achieve the requested capacity in future fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. Backhaul networks in UDNs are formed by heterogeneous links with multi-hop connections and must handle...
This study presents a novel approach to enhancing the design and performance of OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) networks, with a particular focus on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) for Best Effort (BE) se...
13 June 2023
Aircraft noise causes a variety of negative health consequences, and annoyance is a central factor mediating stress-related health risks. Non-acoustic factors play an important role in the experience of annoyance where the aspect of fairness is assum...
Platooning strategy is an important component of autonomous driving technology. Autonomous vehicles in platoons are often equipped with a variety of on-board sensors to detect the surrounding environment. The abundant data collected by autonomous veh...
Machine learning is regarded as an effective approach in network intrusion detection, and has gained significant attention in recent studies. However, few intrusion detection methods have been successfully applied to detect anomalies in large-scale n...
In underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs), medium access control (MAC) is an important issue because of its potentially significant effect on the network performance. However, designing a suitable MAC protocol for the UASN is challenging because...
Backbone satellites in a space information network (SIN) can be used as air base stations or data relay satellites (DRSs) to realize cross-system, cross-network and long-distance relay transmission. In this paper, a traffic load optimization problem...
The effective allocation of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds is critical for balancing timely access across patient groups of differing clinical urgency, particularly during demand surges. This paper extends the threshold-based loss-queuing framework t...
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication networks have become an important means to provide internet access services for areas with limited infrastructure. Compared with the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites, the LEO satellites have lim...
Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) utilise acoustic waves with comparatively lower loss and longer range than those of electromagnetic waves. However, energy remains a challenging issue in addition to long latency, high bit error rate, and limited ba...
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is affirmed as one of the dynamic techniques in improving the network throughput and capacity and reducing traffic load to the evolved Node B (eNB). In this paper, we propose a resource allocation and power contro...
Traditional Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions lack adaptive load-balancing mechanisms, leading to inefficient traffic distribution, increased latency, and performance degradation. This paper presents an Application-Aware Dynamic L...
Network flow task management involves the efficient allocation and scheduling of data flow tasks within dynamic satellite networks, aiming to effectively address frequent changes in network topology and dynamic traffic fluctuations. Existing research...
Provision of smart city services often relies on users contribution, e.g., of data, which can be costly for the users in terms of privacy. Privacy risks, as well as unfair distribution of benefits to the users, should be minimized as they undermine u...
The integrated satellite-terrestrial network (ISTN) provides a promising solution to achieve high-data-rate and ubiquitous connectivity in next-generation communication networks. Considering the scarce spectrum resources and unevenly distributed traf...
In the actual operation of a bus, due to the influences of the passenger flow, traffic conditions and other factors, the vehicle back-station time is often delayed, which brings difficulties in commuting according to a timetable that results in the d...
A just or fair distribution of environmental bads and goods is important for solving environmental social dilemmas and is a core idea of environmental justice politics and research. Environmental justice is mostly associated with egalitarianism as th...
Space–Air–Ground–Sea Integrated Networks (SAGSINs) are emerging as a key enabling architecture for broadband maritime connectivity, where heterogeneous access tiers (shore, aerial, and satellite) jointly support delay-sensitive and...
Relay-based traffic control systems are still used in railway control systems. Their correctness is most often verified by manual analysis, which does not guarantee correctness in all conditions. Passenger safety, control reliability, and failure-fre...
To protect participants’ confidentiality, blockchains can be outfitted with anonymization methods. Observations of the underlying network traffic can identify the author of a transaction request, although these mechanisms often only consider th...
In this study, the concept of symmetry is employed to implement an intelligent fuzzy traffic signal control system for complex intersections. This approach suggests that the implementation of reduced fuzzy rules through the reduction method, without...
Modern data center power distribution networks place greater demands on the stability and reliability of power supply. Growing network computing demands and complex network environments can cause network congestion, which in turn leads to network tra...
This paper examines potential performances of the Spread Spectrum-based random access technique and proposes an Improved Spread Spectrum Aloha (ISSA) protocol for the return channel in satellite Internet of Things (IoT) based on the beam-hopping tech...
Traffic density around the globe is increasing on a day-to-day basis, resulting in more accidents, congestion, and pollution. The dynamic vehicular environment induces challenges in designing an efficient and reliable protocol for communication. Time...
A cold chain for perishable fresh products aims to preserve the quality of the products under the control of a predefined temperature range. To satisfy the delivery conditions within appropriate time windows, the most critical operations in cold chai...
In response to the problem of the unfair distribution of berths and quay cranes, as well as the optimization of the traffic path in port scheduling, a berth-crane joint scheduling model is proposed. Firstly, a ship is coded according to its geographi...
Recently, spacing policies of the vehicular platoon have been widely developed to enhance safety, traffic efficiency, and fuel consumption. However, the integrated spacing policies aim to maximum overall benefit, and the distributed spacing policies...
Network lifetime is a crucial concern for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), particularly due to the energy constraints of their nodes and the significant bitrate required by multimedia applications. This paper deals with this issue, studyi...
Recurring socio-temporal events, such as Ramadan in Middle Eastern cities, introduce pronounced non-stationarity in urban traffic demand. During these periods, daytime traffic volumes typically decline, while congestion becomes more severe in the eve...
During the early stages of autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption, traditional human-driven vehicles (HVs) and AVs will share urban roads—potentially diminishing the capacity benefits of AVs; thus, dedicated infrastructure strategies, such as AV-excl...
The Internet of things (IoT), the Internet of vehicles, and blockchain technology have become very popular these days because of their versatility. Road traffic, which is increasing day by day, is causing more and more deaths worldwide. The world nee...
This study aims to utilize the new gravity P-median model to conduct an empirical study for the spatial equilibrium layout of general hospitals in the urban area of Nanjing City, based on multiple requirements for spatial equilibrium, involving spati...
This study introduces a fuzzy interval-valued approach using multi-objective linear programming to optimize passenger–driver matching in ride-hailing systems, addressing uncertainties in waiting times and fare preferences. The model aims to min...
In the context of healthy China, the study of the spatial distribution characteristics of urban sports venues is not only beneficial to planning the construction of sports venues in cities, but also to the health protection of urban residents. Theref...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are expected to reshape future transportation systems. During the long transition period, in which CAVs and human-driven vehicles (HVs) coexist, deploying CAV-dedicated lanes offers a promising approach to enh...
The development of the 5G mobile communication standard attempts to meet the future needs of data users. The impact of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) is crucial in Internet of Things (IoT) and other emerging technologies. The design of medium access me...
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